[BeefWellington]

I'll preface this by saying that my time working with it was while I was working at IBM, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. In my time since I've worked in a few Data/ML and Security positions, so I do have a basis for comparison with other systems.

From what I saw, the actual language-processing part of it was top-tier. It's just it's a hard problem to come up with a demo for that people will actually respond positively to, hence the Jeopardy stint. It has limited real applications. It's really good at what it does but what it does isn't really widely useful.

Nobody wants to see "We're going to replace all our online help / support chat stuff with Watson" because people find those systems frustrating already, even if it would make things vastly better than some of the alternatives.

So you end up with weird stuff like Chef Watson, Doctor Watson, and so on -- things in areas where an ML model isn't going to replace a human anytime soon.

Then Marketing gets involved and suddenly anything that uses any kind of ML needs to have Watson slapped on it, even if it's not doing any language processing.